Turning Carbon Dioxide into Stone
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What if you could take CO2, pump it down a deep hole in the sea floor and turn it into something harmless? New research suggests the idea is not so far-fetched. David Goldberg, Taro Takahashi and Angela Slagle of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory published a study on the subject in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week. Cover image courtesy of Shiny Things/flickr. Filmed and produced by Flora Lichtman. Viewed 10012 times.
Learn more: Deep-Sea Carbon Sequestration
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